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ROB LESHIN

SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Additional Editor February 2023 to November 2023
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
• Feature documentary examining the ups and downs of a music legend’s life, through the lens of a comeback concert. I was the original Editor, and completed several cuts of the film before an extended production hiatus.         • Combines extensive archival material and interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Conan O’Brien, Billy Corgan and many more. Directed by Jason Hehir (The Last Dance).

Editor June 2022 to January 2023
A Boston (R)Evolution
• Feature documentary film examining the complicated evolution and racial history of Boston through the story of its 2021 mayoral election, where the most diverse field of candidates in the city’s history typified demographic changes across the city.
• Combines verite footage of the candidates, interviews with various people on the city streets, and archival material. Directed by Daphne McWilliams (In A Perfect World).

Editor March 2022 to June 2022
The Vow Part 2
• HBO follow-up series further exploring notorious self-help group NXIVM. Edited several full-length episodes that mixed extensive archival footage, animation, and original interviews and material.
• Extensive research and scripting of voiceover from trial transcripts, using animation to tell the story where cameras and microphones were not allowed to go. Directed by Jehane Noujaim.

Editor September 2021 to February 2022
Shark
• 90-minute feature film for ESPN’s “30 For 30” series. Directed by Jason Hehir (The Last Dance) and Thomas Odelfelt. A look into Australian golfer Greg Norman's life and failures at Augusta National, highlighting the 1996 Masters.
• A combination of archival footage, interviews, and new material from Greg’s 2021 return to Augusta to relive the drama.

Additional Editor / Associate Editor
July 2018 to September 2020
The Vow, The Othrs
• Work with editors & producers to cut scenes and assemble story beat selects from over 1,000 hours of raw footage for nine-part HBO documentary series about NXIVM from filmmakers behind The Square (2013) & The Great Hack (2019)
• Create VFX comps, ScriptSync transcripts, ingest, back up, sync & multigroup original footage and mixed format archival assets in Avid and Resolve.
• Prep episodes and create deliverables for out of house online Color, Mix, and Composer in Flame & Pro Tools.

Assistant Editor - October 2017 to June 2018
Enhanced, Jigsaw Productions
• Set up / manage Avid projects for first season of ESPN docu-series about the future of sports and technology. Series is narrated by Alex Gibney, and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
• Create graphics effects, animations & lower thirds using After Effects and within Avid.
• Interface with producers, editors, researchers, out-of-house graphics artists to bring show through to completion. • Transcode, sync, group original 4k footage for offline editing. Ingest & conform mixed format archival assets.
• Prep shows for out of house online Color and Mix, in Resolve & Pro Tools.

Editor - August 2016 to November 2016
Homicide for the Holidays, Jarrett Creative Group
• Edited four episodes of Oxygen true crime series, from radiocut through scoring, VFX and network notes. The series mixed recreation footage with archival content and eyewitness interviews to explore extreme holiday crimes.

Editor - November 2015 to April 2016
The Haunting Of, Jarrett Creative Group
• Edited three episodes of LMN paranormal series, including scoring and VFX work. Show features various celebrities, including: Kesha, T-Boz, Morgan Fairchild, Ernie Hudson, and Kevin Sorbo.

Lead Assistant Editor - August 2014 to November 2015
The Haunting Of, Jarrett Creative Group, New York, NY
• Set up Avid projects for two seasons of LMN series - ingested and synced all media, managed episodes from offline edit through prep for online Color and Mix, including extensive blurring and dead pixel fixes
• Edited supertease Intros and Coming-Ups for multiple episodes, created credits
• Performed various exports for network notes and archival purposes, completed music cue sheets

Assistant Editor / Media Manager November 2012 to August 2014
International Digital Centre, New York, NY
• Provide client support for Avid/Final Cut systems; log & sync footage, assemble stringouts and rough cuts
• Import, log, sync, group media, edit rough cuts and network revisions, conform and master to tape eighteen episodes of Cooking Channel's "Road Trip with G Garvin”
• Conform and edit feature-length projects, such as the documentary “Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen”
• Output to and capture from HDcam, DigiBeta, BetaSP, CF cards, and various other tape & tapeless formats
• Transcode to a variety of codecs, optimize media for FTP, streaming, downloading, and broadcast

EDUCATION

B.F.A. Media Production: Writing for Film and Television
Emerson College, Boston, MA May 2012

SKILLS
Avid Media Composer, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Da Vinci Resolve, Avid Unity/Isis, Pro Tools, Encore, DVD Studio Pro, Microsoft Office Suite, Windows and Mac OSX